How Much HD Space for Linux?

[Ed Sutherland]

Not being the patient sort,  I wiped and reinstalled -- this time with 
just the base system, KDE and Gnome. Just checked and only 23% of the 6 
gigs is used. I plan to limit my 'experimenting', plus find a util that 
I can stick in cron to whittle down the ever-growing log files.

I used to be hesitant to wipe and reinstall (I like the sound of that 
phrase). The process used to take an entire day to get a working system 
back up. Now, after learning what to expect and thinking (a little) 
ahead, I've reduced the time to a couple hours. For instance, I started 
the reinstall at 9:30am and am writing this email at 11:40am.

Ed

Clinton MacDonald wrote:

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>> The trouble is I can't even get into my system (the X side, at least) 
>> because GDM can't write whatever little file is needed to start up a 
>> window manager. Guess it's time to wipe and restart.
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> Can you boot into safe mode (I have forgotten the kernel argument -- 
> maybe someone will come to the rescue)? That should give you enough 
> control (as root) to nuke a few files.
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